Whitney Houston Quotes
I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.
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At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.
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The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.
